Events such as the Sept. 11 attacks and Hurricane Katrina have shown that it is essential that U.S. emergency response official (EROs) have secure identification credentials, that they be electronically verifiable and trusted across multiple jurisdictions. ...

The results of a new consumer survey conducted by Harris Interactive for Secure Identity Systems found that more than half of bank customers worried about the current state of their bank are concerned that their money and identity are not safe. ...

The Washington region's network of nonprofit groups is ill-prepared to respond to a natural disaster or terrorist attack, with a capacity to deal with just 5 percent of the likely need for food and shelter and with no comprehensive communication system to coordinate efforts, according to a recently released emergency preparedness plan....

A recently released study, which surveyed 100 IT professionals and security decision makers in North American companies with 500 or more employees, found that 72 percent of organizations had no solution for preventing data leaks over e-mail and 89 percent of organizations lacked an effective anti-spam solution. ...

Wren, a provider of enterprise video management systems, will donate $10,000 over the next four years to establish a scholarship fund to help school resource officers (SROs) further their education, thereby bringing even more expertise and security strategies to protect the schools they serve....

Fewer than one in five North Carolina businesses surveyed by AT&T for an annual study have no disaster recovery or continuity plan, and about three-quarters consider business continuity planning a priority....

The release of the security budget for the 2010 Winter Olympics is being held up by cost-sharing negotiations between the federal and provincial governments and one critic says that leaves planners with a blank check for spending....

Most U.S hotels are vulnerable to malicious attacks and are "ill prepared" to protect their guests from Internet security problems, claims “Hotel Network Security: A Study of Computer Networks in U.S. Hotels,” published by Cornell University....

A new survey of school resource officers (SROs) and administrators, revealed almost three-fourths of respondents are not extremely confident in their ability to lock down their school in case of an emergency, citing limited budgets to fund electronic access control technologies as the primary obstacle....

Hundreds of police officers were on duty Monday afternoon at the Tennessee State Fairgrounds. They were preparing for the arrival of the two presidential candidates, who traveled to Belmont University for the second presidential debate....

The U.S. managed security services market was valued at approximately $1.3 billion in 2007, an increase of 19.6 percent over 2006. This figure is expected to increase to $2.8 billion by 2012, representing a compound annual growth rate of 17.2 percent, a new forecast from IDC reveals. ...

A lost laptop creates a two-dimensional problem. First, the laptop itself must be recovered or replaced. Second is the prospect that critical information on the company, its plans and its customers could have been lost as well....

HID Global, a provider of systems for the delivery of secure identity, is expanding its position within the access control space to include logical access control products and solutions for converged security environments....

Henry W. Grady High School, located in Midtown Atlanta, has installed a network of surveillance cameras with money awarded to the school by ASIS International, the preeminent organization for security management professionals worldwide....